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WOODY ALLEN famously remarked that he didn’t want to achieve immortality through his works. He wanted to achieve immortality by not dying. It seems that David Seaman, the England goalkeeper, has adopted the same philosophy, without the irony. It’s a great idea, no question, but there is a snag. It doesn’t actually work. Women give birth astride a grave, as Samuel Beckett put it in one of his lighter moments.

There is the freakiest little chapel entertainingly placed just off the Via Veneto in Rome, a street that offers so many of the world’s fleeting pleasures. It is decorated from